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The church exists by mission, just as fire exists by burning.

Emil Brunner

In preaching the gospel, it is our business to show, in so far as our knowledge and experience equip us to do so, how the Christian story enables us to understand and deal with the whole range of human experience in both public and private life.

Lesslie Newbigin, Proper Confidence, p. 96

Marsden is rightly contemptuous of the fatuous idea that an infusion of 'values' separated from a comprehensive world view would make any difference in the present state of affairs.

For in Christ neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything. The only thing that counts is faith working through love.

Galatians 5:6

'...for when you speak of the Spirit you are dealing with him in whom there are no differences of scale.'

Taylor, The Go-Between God, p. 23

'Get all you can; save all you can; give all you can.'

John Wesley

Dilthey worked '...to illuminate the difference between the structure of these sciences of meaning and the natural scientific explanation of events based upon the formulation of theoretical frameworks and the discovery of causal laws.

Georgia Warnke, 'Gadamer' p. 2

The Christian claim is that the Christian faith does more justice to the facts, makes more sense out of life, illuminates life, opens life more to the grace of God that forgives and heals wounded consciences and bruised spirits than does any other faith.

John Leith, Basic Christian Doctrine, p. 7

Whoever questions and even challenges God all the while desiring to obey His Word and listening to His silence, that person is a theologian.

Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Great Souls, p. 356

When men and women identify what are in fact their partial and particular causes too easily and too completely with the cause of some universal principle, they usually behave worse than they would otherwise do.

Alisdair MacIntyre, After Virture, p. 221

Prayer is not just one of the many things people do in life, but rather 'the basic receptive attitude out of which all of life can receive new vitality.'

Dan Postema, Space for God, p. 92

...the knowledge of God consists not in frigid speculation, but carries worship along with it...

John Calvin, The Institutes, bk 1, ch 12

Theology can be a coat of mail which crushes us and in which we freeze to death. It can also be-this is in fact its purpose!-the conscience of the congregation of Christ, its compass and with it all a praise-song of ideas. Which of the two it is depends upon the degree in which listening and praying Christians stand behind the theological business.

Helmut Thielicke, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, p. 36

The Kingdom that I seekIs thine; so let the wayThat leads to it be thine,Else I must surely stray.

H. Bonar, 'Thy Way, Not Mine, O Lord.'

...it is through conflict and sometimes only through conflict that we learn what our ends and purposes are.

15th March 2013

John 1:14a

“There is a history of the translation of the Bible because there was a translation of the Word into flesh.”

Andrew Walls, The Missionary Movement in Christian History, p 26.

The translation of the Bible is a concrete act which draws a multitude of disciplines together into a unified whole. Wirkungsgechichte seeks to specialize in a number of these disciplines without losing its emphasis upon the practical application of these disciplines for the sake of the gospel. As such we begin with Bible translation and end with encouragement toward creative translation in our own time, all in the hopes of aiding in the re-evangelization of Western culture. It is only natural, then, that we begin with a time line of translations of the Bible.

The Hebrew Scriptures were originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic. But as Israelite people and culture were more and more influenced by Greco-Roman culture and language it became clear that the Scriptures needed to be translated into the language of the dominant culture. The septuagint was the result.